Book Reviews
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Thursday, January 23, 2003
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Nokia doubles its profits: "The world's largest mobile phone maker more than doubles its profits despite a worldwide telecoms slump." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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RIAA's Rosen Sets Sights on ISPs: "Broadband providers permit quick downloading of music files; therefore, the head of the Recording Industry Association of America -- which scored a victory Tuesday with Verizon -- thinks they should be penalized. The reaction? Uh, no. By Michelle Delio." [Wired News]
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Four-Winged Dinosaurs and the Dawn of Flight: "The ancestors of birds may have taken to the air on four wings and a prayer. Paleontologists have recovered from deposits in Liaoning, China, dinosaur fossils that exhibit evidence of flight feathers on their hindlimbs as well as their forelimbs." [Google Technology News]
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Googlert tracking: what the web is saying about you -- Comment()
Curiouser and curiouser! points to The FuzzyBlog! on Googlert: "Googlert is an experimental free service which keeps you updated on what the web is saying about you, your products or your interests. It does this by performing regular Google searches on your behalf and sending an email alert containing any new results that appear."
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Microsoft's changing tune on Linux (News.com): "I still believe Linux is an extension of the Unix paradigm. It's a command-line-focused approach that's not particularly designed to be user friendly. The Windows approach is very different. I will say that the adoption of Linux is likely to be bounded by how many companies are happy with Unix." [LWN.net]
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Commentary: IBM's open-source stance (News.com): "IBM has earned the trust of the open source community. As vendors like HP and Sun step up their involvement, the risk that hypercompetitive IBMers will overstep the community boundaries increases. IBM can't let that happen. It must maintain the trust by keeping its agenda in its proper, democratic place." [LWN.net]
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More book reviews (in Finnish) -- Comment()
I created an index of the book reviews. All the reviews are written in Finnish, although many of the books are in English. Most of the reviews have appeared in the Tietoyhteys magazine published by the Ministry of Education. I have now posted here 30 reviews from the years 1998-2000. Update: now there are 51 book reviews from the years 1998-2003.
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